- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality Quotes
What's real depends on where you're standing.
This set weighs reality against illusion, touching on digital-age facts that can't be hidden, the difference between a screen character and the actor playing tough, and why escapist fantasy still appeals. For adjacent emotional ground, see our Pain quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.
- Balance Sheets
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advantage of being the creator of the character is I know them better than anybody, I like to think. But the reality one has to deal with in a serial collaborative medium like comics is that you're not the only one who writes the character.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Meek's Cutoff' by Kelly Reichardt - it's beautifully shot. It's a complex story. The filmmaker gave a very patient and feminine touch to a story that takes place during a period of history that's very masculine, without losing any of the unforgiving harshness of the reality where the characters found themselves in.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I am producing a show that's going to be on NBC this fall. It's called 'School Pride,' and it's a reality show where we're going around the country and renovating schools. It's really great.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a black person in America, it's really hard to avoid being black. And what I mean is that the reality of your cultural history, regardless of whether or not you talk about it, it's there.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020